Volunteer with the Anastasia Foundation

Website Events Manager

By keeping the event calendar up to date, this volunteer position will help increase community engagement and promote real-world connections.

Responsibilities and duties:
• Regularly update the event calendar on our Wordpress website.
• Collect information about upcoming events from community members and Anastasia Foundation leaders.
• Coordinate with event organizers to confirm details and ensure accurate listings.
• Monitor and manage any changes or cancellations to event listings.

Qualifications:
• Basic knowledge of Wordpress or other website management tools, or basic technical ability and ability to learn.
• Excellent organization and time management skills.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Familiarity with the Ringing Cedars of Russia movement and Anastasia Foundation events

Video Editor

By freeing up the Executive Director’s time (which was previously used in video editing), you’ll enable the creation of many more videos and interviews, furthering the reach and impact of the Foundation. Your efforts will directly contribute to growing the Ringing Cedars movement across the planet, enabling us to consistently deliver insightful and meaningful content to our worldwide community. In the long run, we hope to evolve this volunteer role into a paid position as part of our dedicated staff, reflecting the value and importance we place on this role.

Responsibilities and duties:
• Edit videos for release on Mondays and Fridays each week, with average lengths ranging from 10-20 minutes.
• Edit longer interview videos (1-2 hours), removing unnecessary pauses and other minor elements.
• Work closely with Gabriel, the Founder and Executive Director, to ensure video content aligns with the Foundation’s vision, mission and brand.
• Potentially design engaging thumbnails for video content, using provided images and adhering to our brand kit.
• Provide regular updates and maintain open communication with the Foundation.

Qualifications:
• Experience with video editing software.
• Ability to edit video content to a high standard, removing unnecessary elements and enhancing the overall quality.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to maintain a consistent schedule of video releases.
• Experience in creating engaging thumbnails for videos is a plus.
• Long-term commitment: We are looking for someone who can stay with us for at least a year. Potential to transition into a paid role.

Shorts Video Creator

Your work will help the Anastasia Foundation amplify the message of the Ringing Cedars and engage our community in a dynamic way. By creating short, captivating videos, you’ll share our message in a format that resonates with today’s fast-paced, mobile-first audiences. This role directly supports our mission, providing accessible and engaging content to both our existing community members and potential new readers around the world.

Your creative contributions will not only help to grow the Ringing Cedars movement, but also foster connection and inspire people’s journeys with the ideas in the books. Through your work, you will significantly contribute to the growth of the Ringing Cedars movement worldwide.

Responsibilities and duties:
• Create compelling, short (~60 seconds maximum) video clips from our existing and new video content.
• Use Veed.io platform for video editing, including cropping videos into a vertical format, automatically generating subtitles, incorporating our logo, and other minor editing tasks as required.
• Create at least 10 shorts per week to be shared with our Social Media Manager for posting.

Qualifications:
• Familiarity with video editing tools, preferably Veed.io.
• Basic knowledge of various social media platforms like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Telegram.
• Good judgment on what content makes engaging short videos, and ability to identify key moments in existing videos that can be used for shorts.
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.

Training will be provided for you by Gabriel, to help you use the Veed.io platform succesfully and easily and quickly create shorts. Veed.io is quite simple and not technically challenging.

Facebook Group Moderator

This role is pivotal in creating a welcoming and respectful environment, supporting the broader goals of the Anastasia Foundation and helping to grow the Ringing Cedars movement. Your work will not only foster a sense of community within our Facebook group but also strengthen the larger Ringing Cedars community across the planet.

Responsibilities and duties:
• Follow and maintain a weekly posting schedule to stimulate conversation and connection.
• Monitor and moderate group discussions to ensure they are positive, respectful, and aligned with the foundation’s goals.
• Promote Anastasia Foundation events and initiatives.
• Share relevant forms for community members to engage with, such as quote collection and Ringing Cedars story sharing.

Qualifications:
• Familiarity with Facebook’s moderation tools.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to engage with a diverse community and promote positive interactions.
• Understanding of the Ringing Cedars of Russia movement and principles, and work of the Anastasia Foundation.

Forum Moderator

Your responsibilities involve fostering dynamic conversations, encouraging member participation, and upholding our community’s values. Your role is essential in creating a welcoming space where members can connect, learn, and share their experiences, thereby fostering a thriving online community deeply rooted in the values and principles of the Ringing Cedars. Your contributions will enhance the vibrancy of our community, making it a valuable resource and hub for all our members.

This will lead to inspiring connection and action in the real world, which will help to grow the Ringing Cedars movement across the planet.

Responsibilities and duties:
• Monitor forum discussions and intervene when necessary to maintain a respectful, peaceful environment.
• Inspire and stimulate conversation among forum members.
• Promote Anastasia Foundation events and initiatives within the forum.
• Assist users with any technical or usage issues within the forum.

Qualifications:
• Experience with moderating online forums, or at minimum participating in them.
• Prior experience with phpbb3 forums is a plus.
• Excellent written communication skills in English.
• Strong understanding of the Ringing Cedars movement and mission of the Anastasia Foundation
• Ability to resolve disputes calmly and diplomatically.

Russian to English Translator

They have also built up a vast amount of shared knowledge and experience in the 20+ years the books have been published. So much of this information would be valuable to English-speaking Ringing Cedars readers, if only they could read it.

As a translator with us, you would be helping to bring priceless information and insights to the worldwide English-speaking Ringing Cedars audience. Your efforts would impact the lives of thousands and thousands of people.

Responsibilities and duties: Translation of content (blog posts, articles, forum posts, etc.) from Russian to English.

Qualifications: Fluency and mastery over the English and Russian languages. Preferably a native speaker of both. The ability to clearly convey the ideas in the original content without distortion.

Commitment expected: 1-2 pieces of content per month.